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Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America
Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America
Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America
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Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America

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Eleven-year-old Lisa becomes her mother’s primary support when they face the prospect of homelessness. As Dee, a single mother, struggles with the demons of her own childhood of neglect and abuse, Lisa has to quickly assume the role of an adult in an attempt to keep some stability in their lives. “Dee and Tiny” ultimately become underground celebrities in San Francisco, squatting in storefronts and performing the “art of homelessness.” Their story, filled with black humor and incisive analysis, illuminates the roots of poverty, the criminalization of poor families, and their struggle for survival.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 19, 2020
ISBN9781931404198
Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America

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    In this moving memoir, Tiny traces her history of homelessness through her family’s matriarchs, her mother’s disabilities, and her own struggles and triumphs as she becomes an adult in the midst of a constant fight for the most basic necessities: shelter, food, warmth, health, education, and safety. Tiny emerges as a powerful activist and poverty scholar, and her story is a call to action, a tribute to the mother who whose life was itself a lesson, and a vivid chronicle of a young woman’s journey to homefullness. Readers of any age will want to become Tiny’s allies, will finally understand the incredible, almost impossible feat of surviving in a society that both ignores and aggressively hates the poor. Ultimately, for Tiny, art, education, and love are the forces that keep her alive, and help to raise the voices of others in her local and global community.

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